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05-30-2009, 01:08 AM
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I have a feeling The Hermit knows something about parthenogenesis but it's really advanced and I'm not familiar with the science: Quote:
It might be that the xy chromosome in humans is a mutation and the original pattern was xx. Probably too controversial so it's become occult knowledge. | |
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05-30-2009, 06:01 AM
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|     The Cat's Eye Tarot is by a feline veterinarian, a person very familiar with cats, their habits and personalities. These cats are very natural and real, and yet have been beautifully adapted to Tarot cards. Unfortunately the deck is still in progress and is not yet available. By Debra M. Givin Tarot Deck - 78 Cards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am looking forward to when this deck comes out! I love The Fool one as well as Temperance. Black and White kitties in Temperance look like Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat.  Temperance stands for balance (water, air, earth & fire) if memory serves. It's been so long time for me. We can all start all over learning and have fun plus include lol kitties.Does anyone recall the 007 movie, Let Live, Let Die? A tarot card reader turns up the Fool card for Bond and tells him "You are an adventurer". So our adventure beings in this forum. Come on everyone...take a leap! I am going to stay with the Fool until I am ready to move on to next card. |
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05-30-2009, 08:21 AM
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Delighted to see this thread in a mostly scientific forum. Tarot is what I do for a living since it is something you can do from home, and with a chronic illness it's easy to set yourself up from various websites, plus my private clients come to my home. If I'm sick, I don't work. No employer is going to give me that. To me the fool is endless possibilities, enthusiasm, fearlessness, and in very rare instances it has actually symbolized foolish actions. It often comes up when people are starting a new phase of their life, such as their first job after finishing college, or moving out of their parents' home, divorcing, a career change, etc. The little dog symbolizes protection, if nobody has mentioned that yet. Think of the old adage God protects fools and drunks.  I knew a psychologist who was into tarot and the whole Jungian concept. There are so many interesting ways to use it that don't involve divination, but it's intriguing to me how you can get a group of people together, some of whom claim to be intuitive, some who don't, yet they will all come up with similar interpretations from different methods. It's a fascinating tool, however you use it. |
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05-30-2009, 09:42 AM
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Those cards are lovely Bryn, thanks for showing us them. I looked them up on the interwebz and managed to copy all of the major arcana ones for us  Welcome to BigEyes, it's great to hear from you and thanks very much for clarifying how you see The Fool. There are a lot of ways to approach the tarot and a combination of different views makes a bigger, more complete picture for us to share. This is a bit of an avant garde trial, I'm just making it up as I go along and I'm hoping that collaboration will work well for all of us. I wasn't feeling very well yesterday, I was anxious and a bit paranoid about some things and it stressed me a bit that I'd start this thread and everybody would think I was just being daft, lol. Now that some great people have joined in I feel a lot better, thanks. Please keep on sharing your ideas about The Fool. I was thinking of moving at a symbol per day but this one seems to need a little more time. There isn't any rush anyway, the aim isn't to finish the story, it's to enjoy the journey.  Little Miss S. - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Shooting up junk in the bathroom Makin' it with punks on the floor livin' the scene out of her limousine Little Miss S. in a mini dress living it up to die in a blink of the public eye Day-glo paint on an electric chair electric dye in her lover's hair a pretty sight in the middle of the night made up for everyone to see swingin' on the branch of a broken family tree You got a lot of livin' to do without life The village idiots in her bed never cared that her eyes were red never cared that her brain was dead in the hours that her face was alive it was the thing just to be by her side You got a lot of living to do without life Okay -- Alright  Some other associations with zero/AIN/The Fool: Hermaphrodite Innocent Ecstasy Madness Semi-Consciousness Irresponsibility Air Nuit Intoxication Silence |
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05-30-2009, 06:40 PM
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Wanted to add, I love the way you write. I used to get a daily email from a woman who wrote about cards but she seems to have stopped. You have a similar style, covering every detail in the card. Nice.  |
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05-30-2009, 07:15 PM
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| My Favorite Fool   Got it in color, Thank you, BigEyes! This card is my favorite Fool. From Robin Wood deck. When I first meditated on this card I started to "hear" the flute and music. (I am totally deaf.) That's why he's my favorite Fool. 0 - The Fool This card shows a young blond man dressed as a harlequin. He is playing the flute, and dancing near the edge of a precipice. Near his feet is a little dog. Key - Pay Attention. The meaning of this card is thoughtless innocence, and lighthearted folly. A lack of discipline. A lack of experience that can be dangerous. Great freedom, although with a connotation of foolishness. Idealistic youth, creativity. Seeing only the goal, and not possible difficulties along the way. I dressed the fool as a harlequin to show that he is a lover, with sharp wits, although he may also be somewhat of a buffoon, and liable to be hurt in the end. I gave him a white shirt to show his purity. His vest is yellow and blue to show sun and shadow, light and dark. His moods may be mercurial, and vary between these extremes at the drop of a hat. He wears red and white on his left leg for the Lord and purity. Red is often a color associated with the Lord, the God of the Hunt, and squares are also often symbolic of masculinity or rigidity. On his right leg are the green and white stripes of the Lady. Green and white are her colors for a good part of the year. But usually the right, active side is seen as masculine, and the left, intuitive side as feminine. He has them reversed to show that although he is aware of the forms, he doesn't really understand. Or perhaps he flaunts the convention in an act of youthful rebellion, to assert his freedom and independence! He dances, carefree, to the sounds of a pipe. In many decks, he is carrying a staff which symbolizes the wand of will and life (we'll get more into that in the chapter about the suit of Wands.) In my deck, I decided to transform the wand into a pipe, because I see him as playing with his will and life; having fun, and making pretty tunes with them, but in a larger sense doing just as he wants with them, with little regard for the consequences. Far from a staff to steady his steps, he has made them into a flute to dance to! And dancing on the edge is very dangerous. He wears the white roses of freedom in a wreath around his head. There are five of them, to symbolize the five elements; earth, air, fire, water and spirit. He knows of all of them, which gives him freedom in each. But the knowledge is still only at his head level. It has not penetrated to his heart, and he isn't paying attention to any of it! Stuck into the wreath is a long red feather, symbolizing his courage. He is brave, even if it's mostly the bravery of ignorance. (He isn't afraid, because he has no idea how badly he can be hurt.) He wears a pack on his back, strapped on with the white ribbons of guilelessness. In it he carries all the things he needs to get along in the world. But they are strapped down behind him, and not really accessible. I gave him five ribbons for the five senses. They are what he has bound his life up with. When he reaches for something he needs, he hits them first, and is usually distracted by their beauty. He dances on bright spring grass, to show this is a youthful thing. The grass is strewn with pairs of red and white flowers for fearlessness and innocence. His eyes are on the distant vista of the mountains, which stand for knowledge and enlightenment. That may be a good thing, but in this case it means that he is completely unaware that he is about to dance right off the edge of a cliff! A little white dog, which symbolizes his friends, or his own unconscious mind, is trying desperately to warn him of the danger. But so far he is not paying any attention. Sometimes, when this card comes up in a reading, the little dog looks like it's just dancing along with him, aware of the brink, but unwilling to disturb it's master. In that case, I read it as people who are so enamored of his charisma that they are sure that he does really know what he is doing, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. If he is going to go over, then that must be the right thing to do, and they'll go right over with him! Below him is the valley which symbolizes the deeper parts of his own soul, with the stream of his unconscious running through and watering it. In a very real way, it's the depths within himself that he is about to tumble into. Three trees grow up from the valley to the level where he walks. These symbolize his body, mind, and soul. They are the parts of which he is made, which rise from his inner self until they are seen by all, although their roots remain hidden. As he dances, three butterflies flit around him. Butterflies in the Tarot stand for transformation. If he doesn't watch out, he is going to have a transformative event! (Oh please, Gods, not another learning experience!) I gave him three to show the future, which is rosy; the present, which is a blank sheet; and the past, which is golden. He is facing the future, but the past and present are both behind him, and he isn't looking at them at all. In other words, he is paying very little attention to where he is now. The sun shines brightly on him, and there are no clouds in his sky. |
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